Return error if NewRequest fails in http output (#4429)

2018-07-17 15:54:10 -06:00
parent 3218ed7e0d
commit b75d66ff41
1 changed files with 3 additions and 0 deletions
--- a/plugins/outputs/http/http.go
+++ b/plugins/outputs/http/http.go
@@ -127,6 +127,9 @@ func (h *HTTP) Write(metrics []telegraf.Metric) error {

 func (h *HTTP) write(reqBody []byte) error {
 	req, err := http.NewRequest(h.Method, h.URL, bytes.NewBuffer(reqBody))
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}

 	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", defaultContentType)
 	for k, v := range h.Headers {